Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 75
“Well now, Brother Fox and Brother Wolf,” said the Hare in a genial tone of voice, “it is nearly time for us to be off.
Who acts: Brother Fox, voice · What happens: say, be, intonate · To what, where: genial tone, time, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother Fox, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fox | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 now | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Brother | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | Brother | brother | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Fox | amod |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Brother | cc |
| 8 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | conj |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brother | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fox | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fox | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hare | det |
| 14 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tone | det |
| 17 | genial | genial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tone | amod |
| 18 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tone | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 time | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 time | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 time | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 time | cop |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 time | advmod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tone | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 time | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 be | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 time | acl |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 be | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brother Fox and Brother | a genial tone of voice and time | the Hare nsubj | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | voice | time | for us; nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | intonate | voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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